Daughter's cardi, random things...

My daughter is four and I suppose it's because I'm a sahm that she insists on going everywhere with me. We made a trip to Michael's, more out of boredom than anything. They had one of those free pattern slips for this:

She said she liked it, I asked her if she wanted me to make her one, and what colors. These are her colors:

I am making her a size 6 mainly for comfort, she doesn't like things to be tight on her body and so she can grow into it as well. But I think she did a great job at choosing. So now we'll have to go find some buttons...

On other things, I have been working on my hoodie, and I started on the gusset of the left sleeve the other night. Things are coming along nicely, but there's been a few times where I have to go find a reference to understand something.

Getting on with it....

I FINALLY got done with the body of the sweater. Would you like to know many times I had to redo the back shaping? Six. Yes, people, you read that right; six damn times. It got to the point where I was screaming and yarn would go across the room. Even Josh was saying, "Is this it?" No this isn't it because I didn't invest so much of my time doing this. I ended up having to rewrite the pattern for my size. I was doing what I was supposed to be doing, but always would end up with the measurements for an extra large, which I'm not. This medium is going to be too big for me. I'm doing the sleeves and it's like wow, these things are huge. But I am typically a medium and since this is cheap yarn, hey lets do something loose for those "I feel crappy days". But along with other things, I bought a new pattern book. Ok well Josh bought it for me, Greetings From Knit Cafe. It's a nice book, I'm doing the bikini. Same yarn and all, but different colors. I'll have pictures of it up sometime when I feel like it. But buying that I had to buy needles, and I bought Addi Turbo's, those things are really expensive...but I like them alot so they're worth it :)

I've Gotten Somewhere!

What I've done so far. The middle is the back, upper part is the left front bust, bottom is the right bust part.

Right bust and neck part.
The left part of the front. Pattern totally confused me. If you can see it, the stuff in the square is actually purling in knitting :/. I actually like it, but since I don't know where I started and ended it, I'm tearing it out. If I knew, I'd redo the right in it.
I started on the back shaping today.

I am proud of myself, this is really the first *big* thing I've done, especially clothing. I've crocheted shrugs and all, but I've finally realized that knitting is one of my true loves. This is the Little Red Riding Hoodie from the Domiknitrix book. I'm using Lion Brand's "Homespun" acrylic yarn on size 8 needles.

Coming Along....Finally

I have four inches of the bottom. So finally, I am again on a roll. While Josh was in Vegas I was always telling him about my knitting filled day. Like a sweetie, he listened, although he was *very* clueless. He always was saying he couldn't wait to see it, now I am able to show him what it looks like on my needles. I even got to show Melissa ( a close family friend, I'm watching her kidlings) today. She says, I want one! Haha, I'll knit her one as long as she foots the bill for the yarn. She has a thing for soft blankets, so for her birthday in September, I think I'll knit her a blankie. I was thinking something soft, like cashmere and I'm always finding neat patterns. Just an idea, but I do know that she'll be getting a handmade blanket from me, as well as a birthday cake that she's already requested :)